MSUM EXPECTS MORE THAN 425 STUDENTS TO GRADUATE DEC. 17

Weather keeping you from getting to campus to attend commencement?

Watch the ceremony live on WDAY’Z Extra. Or, watch it on your computer.

MSU Moorhead will award degrees to more than 425 students during its fall commencement program Thursday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. in the university’s Nemzek Fieldhouse.

The ceremony will be broadcast on WDAY’Z Extra and will include an hour-long pre-commencement program with interviews, student videos and other content that will be anchored by MSUM alumna Lane Zyvoloski, a 2013 mass communication/media studies graduate and WDAY’s First News anchor and producer.

In addition, anyone can download the #MSUM2015 free mobile app to get real-time notifications, share photos, access the commencement program, and follow the action on Twitter!

Guest speakers include alumni Vincent Williams (social studies & MS curriculum and instruction) and Erma Vizenor (elementary education, MS guidance and counseling, & Specialist education administration). 

Williams is the assistant principal intern at Lincoln Elementary School in Fargo. He is an integral part of the district’s technology initiative, and has served on several committees including the Fargo North High School Leadership Team, the Fargo Public Schools Social Studies Committee, and the Fargo Public Schools Summer School Task Force.

Vizenor will be representing the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees & Office of the Chancellor. Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Vizenor to the Board of Trustees in 2014 for a six- year term, expiring June 30, 2020.

Vizenor was elected Chairwoman of the White Earth Reservation in 2004 and is the first woman to 
lead the largest tribe in Minnesota. She has worked her entire career in education on the White Earth Reservation. She is committed to building a strong infrastructure within the White Earth Reservation, which is necessary in order to exercise sovereignty, self-governance, and service to the tribal citizens.

Parking will be open in all university lots on commencement day. Lots will not be ticketed the day of the ceremony. Street parking will be available as posted. Driving directions to campus are located at here.

For those who can’t attend commencement, it will be streamed live online here.